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Commit 705aaf25 authored by Andrei Paskevich's avatar Andrei Paskevich
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......@@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ We are happy to announce the first public release of Why3, also known
as the Why platform next generation. It is a new project, independent
from Why.
The home web page of Why3 is http://why3.gforge.inria.fr/, where you
This is an alpha release that may contain bugs or lack some features.
Its purpose is to present the new architecture of the Why3 platform,
to introduce the revised input language, and to call for comments
and bug reports.
The home web page of Why3 is http://why3.gforge.inria.fr, where you
can find the source distribution and the manual. See the manual for
installation instructions and contact information.
......@@ -84,11 +89,12 @@ The main new features with respect to Why are the following.
1) Completely redesigned input syntax for logic declarations
* new syntax for terms and formulas
* definitions of algebraic data types, definitions by pattern-matching
* recursive definitions of logic functions and predicate, which are
checked terminating
* enumerated and algebraic data types, pattern matching
* recursive definitions of logic functions and predicates,
with termination checking
* inductive definitions of predicates
* declarations are structured in components called theories.
* declarations are structured in components called "theories",
which can be reused and instantiated
2) More generic handling of goals and lemmas to prove
......@@ -96,8 +102,8 @@ The main new features with respect to Why are the following.
* generic concept of task transformation
* generic approach for communicating with external provers
3) Source code organized as a library with a documented API, to allow
access to Why3 features programmatically by linking.
3) Source code organized as a library with a documented API,
to allow access to Why3 features programmatically by linking.
4) GUI with new features w.r.t. the former GWhy
......@@ -113,11 +119,11 @@ The main new features with respect to Why are the following.
* users can add connections to additional provers
Beware that some Why features are not available in Why3:
Beware that some Why features are not yet available in Why3:
* There is a VC generator distributed in Why3 in an experimental stage
and intentionally undocumented (the input syntax for programs may
change a lot in the future).
and intentionally undocumented in the current documentation (the input
syntax for programs may change a lot in the future).
* There is no front-end for other languages like C or Java. However,
the last release Why 2.28 is able to use Why3 as a back-end
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